What a lovely book! I absolutely adored this story of self discovery paired with romance, and how well they tied together. I have recommended it to so many friends!

“One Night on the Island” by Josie Silver is more than a rom-com.To be honest, it was hard for me to get into this book. I had to pick it up multiple times as I was not connecting with the main character. Silver’s previous novel “One Day in December” is one of my favorite books and I had high hopes for this one too. Unfortunately, this was not a favorite for me however, I will always pickup another one of Josie’s books.

Thank you NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group - Ballantine for my digital arc in exchange for my honest review.

Cleo is a journalist who takes a trip to Salvation Island to “self couple.” Upon arriving at the place her boss has booked for her to stay, Cleo finds Mack. Due to a miscommunication, Mack’s cousin, who owns the cabin, has given him clearance to stay there as well. As there is nowhere else on the island to stay, Mack and Cleo decide to cohabit the cabin.

I did not enjoy this book. I was so bored the entire time. I was not at all rooting for Mack and Cleo to get together. Everything was so long and drawn out and entirely too much. The plot (what plot?) was nothing. Do not read.

Thank you to Ballantine Books and Netgalley for an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The cover points to this being a RomCom but really it was a story of self-discovery, determining your place in the world and yes, a love story.

For me though, the love story took more of a back seat and I would have been completely fine with a different ending.

I loved how Cloe’s character became more self-aware over the story. I loved the fun characters on the island and the hill where the women screamed into the wind, gave me goosebumps.

I would love to spend more time on this island. I wonder if the author will bring us back here again.

I was able to listen to the audiobook while reading along. The narrators were great so pick this up if you are an audiobook fan.

Cleo writes a magazine column about her (so far unsuccessful) dating life; as her 30th birthday approaches, her editor convinces her to go to an isolated island in Scotland to "marry herself" for a story. Unfortunately, when she arrives, there's been a mixup and she finds herself sharing her AirBnB with a big brooding Bostonian, Mack, on his own retreat. It's a cute premise, but I hated how stubborn and petulant Cleo was throughout the book - refusing to make the best of a bad situation and generally coming off as a brat. I didn't love the romance between the two main characters (um, he's married?!), but I did love the characters on Salvation Island - I wish the book had been more about them.

This book was a fun treat! I loved it! It was a good reset after I read a heavier book. It kept me flipping pages well past my bedtime!!

Cleo Wilder’s 30th birthday is coming and she isn’t quite prepared for it. She isn’t where she thought she would be at 30 and her life seems up in the air. Her boss, though gives her an assignment to head to an Irish island to think about life and write about it. She can’t even begin to think about being away from London but she hopes this time on the island helps her figure her next moves in life.
Mack Sullivan’s life is spinning out of control too. He has the opportunity to head to the same island, to settle his soul and make a plan for the next phase of his life.
When they both get to the island they realize, the room has been double booked. This is where things get fun. They either have to work it out or one of them has to leave the island on the next ferry, one week away. Can they get along long enough to enjoy their time on the island? Do they have more in common then could be believed? How long can they make it before they blow up at each other? Or do they find their way and make things work? Josie Silver had me guessing the whole time. This story was well written. It was a quick read and I gave it four stars. I want to thank Netgalley & the author for my copy for an honest review. It was my please to read and review this book. I hope you enjoy it to!!!

What a wonderful romantic getaway. Silver has such a perfect touch with the characters and the plot - taking a trope we're all familiar with and imbuing it with so much heart and humor and delight that we're captivated.

Not going to lie, the idea of "self-coupling" made me nervous. I'm all for self care, but come on...

Despite that, I enjoyed this. Mac and Cleo go through their own journeys while they slowly moved from adversaries to something much more. I absolutely loved the island and all its inhabitants. They were almost just as important as our main characters.

This was my first Josie Silver book, but I think I'll keep my eye on her future projects.

I enjoyed this tale of Cleo, who went to "marry herself" on an island as part of an assignment. While there, she meets Mack, who has come to the island as a photographer. To their initial dismay, they find themselves stuck in a cottage together for their stay, but slowly start to warm up to one another. Each night, they reveal three things about themselves to the other, which starts to create a bond between the two.

Without giving too much away, I really enjoyed watching their relationship develop. The characters were well-written and so was the scenery - I felt like I was there! If you're a fan of romance or Silver's previous work, I definitely recommend this.

One Night on the Island by Josie Silver is a charming book that I didn’t know I needed until I read it. With Covid taking over again and the war in Ukraine heating up, I was feeling down, and this book was the perfect remedy. It restored my faith in human kindness and was a much needed escape.

I really wasn’t sure what the book entailed besides being a romance. When I started and saw the main female protagonist was going to Salvation Island, all I could think of was a reality dating show, but I was wrong. Salvation is stunning and remote, hilly and picturesque, with a strong sense of community and helpfulness. Cleo goes there to write an exposé on turning 30 while single and is tasked with performing nuptials with herself. Yes, it went there, but, it went there with class and self-understanding.

Mac, the main male protagonist, is also on Salvation, yet he’s there to figure out his life and to visit where his “people” come from. This sets up a wonderful setting for a strangers to something more romantic trope.

The writing is witty, smart, relatable and you’ll be wanting to book an Airbnb there asap! If you liked Silver’s earlier book, One Day in December, you’ll for sure love this one too.

“Life is the stuff that happens in the cracks between your plans and expectations.”

This book is really something special. Cleo is nearing her 30th birthday and has been sent to an island off the coast of Ireland for a writing assignment. She is to spend time alone in a cabin and spend her birthday with a ceremony where she essentially "marries" herself. Unfortunately for Cleo, she comes to find that Mac has also arrived with the notion that he would be staying in the very same cabin, owned by his cousin. On the surface, this appears to be you typical forced-proximity romance but is really so much more than that.

Really, the only problem I had with this book is that Mac is a fan of the Red Sox. #goyankees I adored everything about this book. Cleo's journey to rediscover her inner self and to learn to love herself just as she is is one that is inspiring and uplifting. Mac's struggles with the separation in his marriage and how that changes the relationship with both his soon-to-be ex-wife as well as his two sons was heartbreaking and also sweet. I loved how he loved his family. The islanders are a wonderful, quirky, fun group of people that I just wanted to spend more and more time with as Mac and Cleo got to know them better. The setting is intoxicating and romantic in itself. The writing is great as we get to see inside the heads of both main characters. I felt like I was on my own sabbatical while reading this and only wish I could take my own journey to the island. I'm not 100% sold on the ending but it did leave me satisfied enough and did not detract from the enjoyment of the book as it felt very real to the characters. I inhaled the book and am happy to have this island and its characters on my shelf for future visits. Highly recommend!

A classic tale of a woman turning 30 who needs to take a break from her demanding job, Cleo leaves for a remote Irish island to find herself and re-energize her work. She ends up being double booked into the cabin with a man named Mac. I ended up not finishing this book because it was moving quite slow and felt very predictable. It was lacking in both the romance and comedy department for me.

I've seen great reviews of it from others though so definitely give it a try if you love books about vacation, romance, sweet characters.

“One Night On The Island” by Josie Silver wasn’t the romantic comedy I was expecting it to be. While, yes, there was a relationship involved, I found it more about each Mack and Cleo finding and rediscovering their own true selves. I think this book is perfect for anyway who is possibly thinking about having a reset in their own lives or thinking about what next steps they should take.

At times this book was slow moving for my taste, but I think it was purposefully written that way. Silver wanted the reader to explore and analyze and think about the intricacies of those characters’ lives and thoughts. While this isn’t quite the book I imagined it to be, it was one that explored important life lessons.

I am a reader that usually enjoys focusing on the main characters and that is it. However, I thoroughly enjoyed learning more about the native townspeople and their lives. A fun element of the book that tied together nicely!

Thanks to NetGalley for providing me an ARC of “One Night on the Island” in exchange for an honest review,

This is the most beautiful novel I've ever read. It felt surface-y at first but as the story went on I started to understand the importance and message of the book. It was so much deeper than you would think, if you are willingly to look that far. I saw so much of myself in Cleo and felt like Silver was telling 'my' story so perhaps that is why I loved this book so much.

I loved it so much as a digital ARC that I pre-ordered the paperback verison to have in my collection because I wanted to be able to annotate, highlight and feel the words in my hands. I sobbed like a baby toward the ending and enjoyed that everything was wrapped up, but not as neatly as romance readers are used to. It was perfection.

Absolutely loved this book! She is fast becoming a go to author for me and this book didn’t disappoint! I highly recommend all her books but especially this one!

Thank you NetGalley and Ballantine for the opportunity to read this eARC!

This was sooooo good! It took me weeekkkkkks to read but I am so glad I finished it! The first 50% was such a slow burn for me and I really struggle with slow burns. And this slow burn for me was especially hard because Cleo and Mac did not really have a relationship for the longest time. But I guess that’s also forced proximity for y’all.

Once we got to a certain part *light spoiler but y’all this is a romance so it’s really not* 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 I could not put this down!!! I can’t remember if there’s steam but there wasn’t not so 🌶 I’m going to say.

Read if you like
🥹 Emotional romance
🏠 Forced proximity
🧲 Opposites attract
❤️‍🔥 Slow burn
🛫 Vacation romance

Fun and romantic. Friends and I discussed how this book hit the perfect spot we were looking for. The meet cute was believable and enjoyable!

Another stunning and heartfelt novel by one of my favorite authors! As soon as I was approved for this Netgalley, I had to dive right in. Of course, the writing is fabulous and her characters are always so real but also lovable. But what I really enjoyed about this book was the setting and sense of community on Salvation Island. I loved how the locals took Cleo and Mack in as their own. Each character, even the islanders, had his or her own unique and fiery personality and I loved that.

I also enjoyed Cleo's self-love journey and how she really grew and found herself on that island. She makes some huge decisions and I was thoroughly invested in what she was doing. I also liked how I did not know how this would end. Silver does a great job of making you question some things but in the end, it all wrapped up nicely and I felt pure joy for the characters as if they were my real life friends.

The only one bed trope, but make is a cabin on a remote Irish island 🤗

While it took me a while to get into this book, I found it to be an incredibly heartwarming & endearing story about finding yourself and discovering the meaning of home.

The setting and cast of side characters in this book could not be beat: a remote Irish island full of quirky, unique, and strong-minded individuals who leave an impact on both Cleo, the MC, as well as the readers. On top of that, the two main characters, Cleo & Mac, has great individual journeys, in addition to as a couple.

Highly recommend this heartwarming romance 💗